Realizing God's Will Is Oneness

A Better Answer For The World

There is a certain simplicity in life that comes from following the guidance of Holy Spirit in all things, and not worrying about anything.  It is a letting go of struggling to find solutions to any worldly problems.  It is letting go of analyzing data and brainstorming for creative solutions, ideas that are talked about in numerous books on the market today, such as looking at habits of successful people.  There is only one habit that leads to a successful life and that is listening to inner guidance without fail.

When I was in the practice of law, I had to research endlessly cases and precedents, and how issues were resolved in the past.  Then I had to build arguments for resolving the matter at hand in accordance with past judgments.  Of course, there are many judgments with many complicating factors and sorting through all these complications for just the right data to support my case was an ongoing job for each client matter.  Creative arguments then had to be invented to stretch the law to fit the circumstances at hand, so that past resolutions could be used to resolve this case in line with them.  We could be inventive, but rarely does a judge want to go out on a limb deciding a case.  The judge wants precedent to rely on, a way to apply the past to the present.  This does make for a sense of contuinity in the law, a sense of predictibility that we all take comfort in at times.  But is predictibililty a value to hang onto at all cost?

This scenario of analyzing the past to determine the future couldn’t be more unlike how I use my time today.  In my ministry work, and in my daily living, I turn to just the one answer that is fresh in every moment.  I practice mindfulness in which I give every circumstance, event and issue over to the Holy Spirit for His guidance.  As I go to Him for solutions of what would be truly helpful in every moment, I let go of defining issues, researching, analyzing, and trying to find solutions from the past to guide my present decision.  I let Holy Spirit set my course of action as I remember that He has the answers that work best.  These answers have nothing to do with my past judgments.  These answers have everything to do with my present peace and joy.

When I let go of applying the past onto the present and future, I let go perpetuating bad dreams of fear and anxiety about outcomes because I am worrying about what appears to be best from ego worldly standards.  I have no way of knowing what the best outcome is, but Holy Spirit does.  I am aware that this means that I trust Holy Spirit more than I trust man-made laws that keep the status quo in place.  I am aware that not everyone can say this with conviction because they feel uncertain what the worldly outcome might be if Holy Spirit is in charge.  They might feel such guidance is good for spiritual matters, but what about the “real world” of law, business, medicine, education, government, and the list goes on.  What about these areas of life?  Could we trust Holy Spirit to guide us even in these?  Whose guidance would we listen to anyway, if they conflict?

These questions are just of the ego mind which would perpetuate the status quo of chaos, confusion, and a seemingly endless array of problems for which there appear to be no good solutions.  Of course, Holy Spirit is there to guide us in all matters as to where we are to go and what we are to do to be truly helpful.  It does take a certain amount of courage and conviction to admit that, just maybe, one doesn’t have the answer and doesn’t know where to find it in the ego world, and then ask for guidance and follow it with trust that the answer is helpful not only to the person asking, but also to the world.  There are many people who quietly live this way but don’t mention it out loud for fear that they will be ridiculed by strident ego voices around them.  If more people could have the courage to ask others to join with them in peacefully asking for answers, the world would be a more peaceful place.

This doesn’t mean that people have to leave their jobs and take up ministry or some other spiritual career.  Everyone who asks with willingness to hear will receive answers right where they are to be truly helpful, in whatever line of work they find themselves.  It is recognizing that answers will not always repeat in some way the past, but will go beyond the past to a new dynamic in which there are no winners and losers, but only winners.  It is recognizing that the only way to be peaceful is to be peaceful, the only way to be trusting is to trust, and the only way to be listening to a better way is to listen.  Sometimes the best answers are not that complicated.  Holy Spirit always simplifies and makes things clear.  It is a matter of trust.  Do we trust the past because we have always done things a certain way and we value that way?  Or do we trust Holy Spirit to show us a fresh picture of reality that glows with newness as we see holy and eternal values for the first time in a different way?  Do we trust that we are given this picture to share with the world so that all may come to see differently?

We live in times that remind us that the ego voice knows only mistrust, condemnation, confusion and attack as the way to resolve problems.  Many are stuck in old ways of believing and relating to each other as camps of thinking divided and never to unite.  Some of us know there is a better way, and furthermore, we ask to see and hear this better way.  When we get the answer, and we always get the answer, let us share it for the betterment of the world.  Let us share unafraid that we felt inspired by a power greater than our worldly selves that there is a better way to live.  Let us share peacefully from the place of peace within ourselves that the future can be joyful because there are better answers and we can know these answers.  The only answer is acknowledging the everyone is a child of God and every child of God is worthy and deserving of peace.  I trust that if we ask, Holy Spirit will answer in a way we can understand and share.  This is what I practice now.  Won’t you practice this with me?  Together we can open the world to let go of past judgments and simply be at peace.

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